George Clooney Interview
George Clooney talks about the challenges of starring in and directing a broad comedy and confesses that he is unlikely to do that kind of serious double duty again.
Clooney: If I spend time with you there is alcohol involved. I’ll say that right off the bat.
Question: I take it you were influenced by Howard Hawks.
Clooney: I stole from Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges in a big way. I stole a scene. I’m trying to think of who all I stole from. Wait, ‘homage’. I homaged the shit out of Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges. And early George Stevens. There is a film called “The More the Merrier” we were trying to rip off a lot.
Question: When you started scouting locations in North and South Carolina, what led you to use parts of these cities for these films? And could you describe your shoot in North Carolina in general?
Clooney: I never really was in North Carolina. No, it was real fun. The scout was easy because we were looking for a place that would have something of a change of seasons, but not quite the Minnesota change of seasons to shoot the February.
It just didn’t seem fun to us. It didn’t seem that we would catch everything we wanted. We needed some scenes with trees. We knew that digitally we could change the colors from green to orange and red if there leaves on the trees, but that the area would be great for old stadiums which were important to us and also a bit of a change of season.
We ended up getting caught in some pretty cold weather, shockingly, which was unfortunate, but I’m telling you, we loved both the Carolinas. I grew up in Kentucky which we think of as the south, but Carolina’s think of as the Yankees somehow, but I still think of us as the South and I always appreciate — it’s a very different way of life down there.
People have a very easygoing nature with you there and I found it to be every bit the case. You know, we had to use hundreds of hundreds of extras, ah, background artists sorry. It was important that we sort of had an understanding. They are not just people in the background. We actually used them. We used their faces. We had to have – We had long talks together in big groups of people and it was easy to do. They were really open and friendly and fun. I couldn’t tell you what a great time we had.
John Cusack Interview – Ouch!
What’s happening when journalist!? showed up to an interview unprepared?
This interview clip is interesting… when a girl interviewing John Cusack tells him he starred in ‘American Beauty’. The problem is…OK, you know! Really? REALLY?
John handled it so well and ‘interview’ is really sweet!
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